Ameliorative potential of desalted Salicornia europaea L. extract in multifaceted Alzheimer's-like scopolamine-induced amnesic mice model

Sci Rep. 2018 May 8;8(1):7174. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25381-0.

Abstract

The Salicornia europaea L. (SE) plant is a halophyte that has been widely consumed as a seasoned vegetable, and it has been recently reported to counteract chronic diseases related to oxidative and inflammatory stress. In this study, we performed an initial phytochemical analysis with in vitro biochemical tests and chromatographic profiling of desalted and enzyme-digested SE ethanol extract (SE-EE). Subsequently, we evaluated the anti-neuroinflammatory and ameliorative potential of SE-EE in LPS-inflicted BV-2 microglial cells and scopolamine-induced amnesic C57/BL6N mice, respectively. SE-EE possess considerable polyphenols and flavonoids that are supposedly responsible to improve its bio-efficacy. SE-EE dose-dependently attenuated LPS-induced inflammation in BV-2 cells, significantly repressed behavioural/cognitive impairment, dose-dependently regulated the cholinergic function, suppressed oxidative stress markers, regulated inflammatory cytokines/associated proteins expression and effectively ameliorated p-CREB/BDNF levels, neurogenesis (DCX stain), neuron proliferation (Ki67 stain) in scopolamine-administered mice. Thus, SE-EE extract shows promising multifactorial disease modifying activities and can be further developed as an effective functional food, drug candidate, or supplemental therapy to treat neuroinflammatory mediated disorders.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alzheimer Disease / chemically induced
  • Alzheimer Disease / drug therapy*
  • Alzheimer Disease / genetics
  • Alzheimer Disease / pathology
  • Amnesia / chemically induced
  • Amnesia / drug therapy*
  • Amnesia / genetics
  • Amnesia / pathology
  • Animals
  • Antioxidants / administration & dosage*
  • Antioxidants / chemistry
  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor / genetics
  • Chenopodiaceae / chemistry*
  • Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein / genetics
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Doublecortin Protein
  • Gene Expression Regulation / drug effects
  • Humans
  • Inflammation / chemically induced
  • Inflammation / drug therapy*
  • Inflammation / genetics
  • Inflammation / pathology
  • Maze Learning / drug effects
  • Mice
  • Microglia / drug effects
  • Microglia / pathology
  • Oxidative Stress / drug effects
  • Plant Extracts / administration & dosage
  • Plant Extracts / chemistry
  • Scopolamine / toxicity

Substances

  • Antioxidants
  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
  • Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein
  • Dcx protein, mouse
  • Doublecortin Protein
  • Plant Extracts
  • Scopolamine